shadow-maint/shadow

4.17.0 release plan

Opened this issue · 3 comments

Cc: @hallyn , @ikerexxe , @thesamesam , @zeha , @jubalh , @stoeckmann

Hi!

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice.
The first RC (release candidate) will be out around St. Nick's day.

Here's a set of PRs, in the order of priority (IMO):


Pending:

  • #1093
    This one needs very careful review. If you have the slightest doubts, please skip it. Still, it's interesting because I have many patches that depend on this one in my local tree.

  • #1109
    Contains a lot of patches simplifying mostly a single function. Each patch is more-or-less trivial, but there are many. I have some other patches after this one, so it'd be interesting to have it done before the release

  • #1107
    Trivial stuff; just silences diagnostics.

  • #1110
    Trivial stuff. Remove fall-back code for pre-ANSI C, which is now dead.

  • #1118
    Trivial stuff. Remove autotools-based header checks, and replace them by a common cc(1) feature.

  • #1111
    Trivial stuff. Remove some build-system check for an old libc bug that was present in the times of Red Hat 3.

  • #1125
    Trivial stuff. Remove obsolete check.

  • #1101
    Trivial stuff. Just some pedantic POSIX stuff.

  • #1119
    Some simplification of csrand(). Just review if everything else is done, but we can live without it.


Merged already:

  • #1117
    Fix input validation. Prevents introducing a regression.

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice. The first RC (release candidate) will be out around St. Nick's day.

Is St. Nick's December 6? I am not used to using the calendar of saints.

Here's a set of PRs, in the order of priority (IMO):

It's good to have this list, as there are lots of PRs to take care of

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice. The first RC (release candidate) will be out around St. Nick's day.

Is St. Nick's December 6? I am not used to using the calendar of saints.

Yes, it is. :)

zeha commented

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice.

Thanks for the heads up!